Minneapolis-based Children’s Minnesota is preparing for an Oct. 3 Epic go-live, but the decision behind the implementation was more than a decade in the making. The health system ran Oracle Health in its hospitals and eClinicalWorks in affiliated ambulatory clinics…
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More than 90% of health systems have deployed third-party AI solutions, but only 44% have a dedicated platform for testing those tools before rollout, according to a new report from the Center for Connected Medicine at UPMC and KLAS Research.…
Brentwood, Tenn.-based Ardent Health expects a single payer contract renewal to add between $5 million and $10 million to its 2026 adjusted EBITDA, as the for-profit system takes a more data- and market-driven approach to revenue cycle and payer contracting. …
York, Pa.-based WellSpan Health expects its quarterly Epic upgrades to become faster and less resource-intensive as a result of the health system’s newly completed migration to Amazon Web Services. “Our future Epic upgrades, which we go through every quarter, will…
The CDC is tracking clinical cases of Candida auris in more than half of U.S. states this year, though the total number of infections from the deadly fungus is down from this time in 2025. The agency has recorded 3,302…
U.S. News and World Report’s 2026-2027 Best Hospitals Honor Roll recognizes 20 hospitals, and each relies on a chief pharmacy officer overseeing medication safety, drug supply and formulary strategy at enormous scale. U.S. News evaluated nearly 4,500 hospitals across 14…
The next major constraint on healthcare innovation may not be a staffing problem, funding problem or footprint problem. It very well may be an ampere problem. Across the United States, health systems are racing toward AI-enabled care just as the…
Luigi Mangione’s defense team is challenging media access restrictions for his upcoming New York state murder trial, arguing they violate his constitutional right to a public proceeding and demanding that the court broadcast the trial live. In a July 31…
Boston Children’s Hospital is among roughly a dozen organizations publicly named by security researcher Vangelis Stykas as impacted by a large-scale North Korean hacking operation, Wired report Aug. 5. The hospital disputes that its own systems were breached, saying the…
Morgantown, W.Va.-based West Virginia University Health System signed a definitive agreement Aug. 6 with Fulton County Medical Center in McConnellsburg, Pa. for it to join the health system. FCMC signed a nonbinding letter of intent in April to join WVU…